Sadness for the neighbors

Saturday was a beautiful day. It was mid 60's and sunny. In my opinion, as nice a day as ever could be...a few houses down there was a little girl playing in a teepee in their front yard. She had 2 dogs freely roaming about while she played. The big dog is a a lab. He's old and, when I approached him, showed me how sharp his teeth would be, and I moved along. The other dog is a long haired dachshund. The little dark just kinda chased us (Mayf and I were riding our bikes) barking incessantly. It would also bark and chase at cars that passed by...

 

Well, as fate would have it, the little dog got a little more assured of itself with each passing car and got too close to a very large SUV. I watched as the SUV passed by and glanced back up the street expecting to see the dog trotting off as it had done many times earlier. Not this time. It lay in the street, silent, twitching...

 

I ran over. Scared and unsure of what to do. The little dog didn't look alive, even then. I ran up to the house and the little girl (unaware) ran to get her sister. A neighbor joined me and soon a couple of other neighbors were out consoling the survivors. The dog was put in a box and given to the older sister. We all went to our own homes...

 

When I witness stuff like that it always reminds me of my own mortality. I thought about how wasteful it appeared for that dog to have died doing that, chasing cars. After giving it more thought, I have reconsidered my position. I don't think it was wasted for that dog to die doing that. That dog was being all the dog it could be. It was doing what God designed it to do the best it could do it and it cost him his life. It might have been that dog was (in it's mind) protecting it's home from these unfamiliar intruders. What more valiant way to die than protecting its own.

 

Then, I started wondering what someone else might think on my departure. Have I wasted my life? Is it evident that I was all the man that God made me to be doing the things that God designed me to do with all my might? It sounds weird, but, that little pup got my attention in a very positive way.

 

I also noticed something else. But, this has to do with what happened after...I'll blog on that later.

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